{"id":5223,"date":"2008-09-15T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-15T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T11:12:00","slug":"google-extends-african-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/5223-google-extends-african-reach.html","title":{"rendered":"Google extends African reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Search engine giant Google now has 26 customised country home pages in Africa. The most recent of these is the homepage for Mozambique (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.mz\" target=\"_blank\">www.google.co.mz<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>The Mozambique homepage is also Google&#8217;s third for Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa &#8211; the others being Angola and S&atilde;o Tom&eacute; and Pr&iacute;ncipe.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Google has also announced the winners of its recent competition for East Africa-based Google Gadget developers. The six-month long competition was aimed at encouraging East African developers to create Google Gadgets relevant to their countries. <\/p>\n<p>The overall winner of the competition was Antoine Nzeyimana of Rwanda who created an Igisoro Game, a numbers game played widely in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>Other winners in the competition included charting applications, a random proverb application and tools for deaf users. <\/p>\n<p>A full list of winners can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/eagadgetcompetition\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/eagadgetcompetition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=135712\"><strong>Google Africa discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search giant extends African home pages and releases new East African Google Gadgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}